This semester I’m interning at the Priddy Library at the University of Shady Grove. My role at the library is particularly unique this semester as I’m tasked with creating a report for the university system as a whole. The library wants to push the universities to provide more teaching of digital tools and methods that are often used in the humanities. In today’s market, many employers want their candidates to have digital skills before they are hired, and the university is currently not doing a good job of teaching students these skills. Unfortunately, there is no system in place to research and begin teaching the digital humanities, so my job is to do that research and create a report that would provide recommendations for the implementation of digital tools into the curriculum.
Currently I am doing that research through reading as well as visiting local digital humanities centers. Those centers, so far, have been the Maryland Institute of Technology for the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland at College Park and the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County. At MITH I attended a series called Digital Dialogues where guests across the digital humanities field were invited to speak about their current work. This particular series was about EcoDH, or the ecological impact of the digital humanities and how we can use digital scholarship to aid in the protection of the ecological system. Adding to this is the importance of being self-aware in regard to the impact of technological use. There is a basic understanding that technology is a necessity of modern life, but digital humanists must also act as advocates for research into the impact of technologies on the ecosystem.
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